by Miles Taylor | Dec 11, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
In comparison to the last route, the 51 is a rather straight connector between Amesbury and Haverhill. It’s also the busiest route based out of Haverhill, despite the fact that it runs more infrequently than the other Haverhill routes. Weird! The bus in...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 11, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Why just take the 83 back from Salisbury Beach when I could do a different route back? Say, a route that does a bunch of deviations and takes three times as long? Looks like the 54 is right up my alley! What an odd-looking background. Because it was summer, the start...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 10, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s a little odd to call something a “Transportation Center” when it only serves three routes, one of which has four trips per day only in the summer. This is a legitimate place, though, and it’s not to be underestimated. This review took...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 8, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the problem with hyper-riding a million routes at the end of the summer: now I’m stuck reviewing a summer-only route in December! Oh well, this is a pretty cool one. The 83 runs from Lawrence allllllllllll the way to Hampton Beach! The bus at Buckley,...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 7, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
What’s your favorite rapid transit line on the MBTA? I’ll do you one better, Liam, and rank them from worst to best! 5. Silver Line I mean, if you want to even count the Silver Line, of course it’s rock bottom. Although the Waterfront routes have...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 7, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Staples headquarters at 8 PM is a lonely place. I was just standing around, waiting for the 9 and hoping this last 8:10 trip actually existed. If it didn’t, I had no idea what I would do. 8:10 came and went. So did 8:15. Was I stuck forever? Finally, the bus...